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Je Suis Charlie, January 7, 2015

New on YouTube - Sunday at the Met: Radiant Light: Stained Glass from Canterbury Cathedral

A long YouTube video related to the exhibition at the Cloisters, Radiant Light. I am not including the embedded video, because it plays terribly in blogger.
link to video -
Sunday at the Met: Radiant Light: Stained Glass from Canterbury Cathedral
The speakers and subjects include -
Intros by Timothy B. Husband, Curator, Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Canterbury Pilgrims, talk by The Very Reverend Dr. Robert Willis, Dean of Canterbury Cathedral
Age Old Splendor—Splendor's Old Age: Preserving Canterbury Cathedral's Medieval Stained Glass, talk by Léonie Seliger, Director of Stained Glass Canterbury Cathedral. If you are only interested in the stained glass part, it goes from 0:45:30 - 1:17:00.
A Reading from The Canterbury Tale, Tom Lee, Storyteller

Robert Harmon Windows in Danger of Demolition [Updated - demolished]

About 18 months ago I heard about a set of stained glass windows in St. Louis that were set for possible demolition, but there seemed to be hope that a way would be found to save the building, either through building somewhere else, or adding on to the existing building. Destroying a perfectly sound building seemed beyond comprehension.

It turns out that this building is now marked for demolition soon, perhaps as early as May 2014, just 2 months away. Article from yesterday - Library lovers make plea to save two St. Louis County branches, stltoday.com, March 18, 2014, by Leah Thorsen

Andrew Raimist gives the best case for preservation of the building on his blog architectural ruminations - Demolishing Lewis & Clark Library Would be Cultural Vandalism

My general sense of the situation is that there is not much hope, though there is a petition up for saving the building - http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/save-lewis-and-clark

One truly unique feature of the windows at the Lewis & Clark Library - the artwork is readable from both the exterior and interior. Mural and stained glass in one. Most people outside of the stained glass profession would not recognize this as highly unusual, but it is, and it is very much worth preserving.

Full article below the fold

AGGnews v4.4 on MagCloud

AGGnews v4.4

By American Glass Guild in American Glass Guild Newsletter

16 pages, published 1/5/2014

A look forward to the 2014 American Glass Guild Conference in Bryn Athyn, PA.

As a for last issue, v4_2-3,  it's now available to download as a pdf.

AGGnews on MagCloud

This is a link to the print version of hte newsletter that I edit for the American Glass Guild.

AGGnews v4.2-3

By American Glass Guild in American Glass Guild Newsletter

28 pages, published 10/15/2013

Highlights of 2013 American Glass Guild Conference in St. Augustine, FL, including an article about his talk, Making Glass for Artists, by Eric Lovell. Plus, an introduction to Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, the location of our 2014 Conference -

The Austin Wall

On the Forbes website (with tons of ads, alas), from a few weeks ago -
Old And New Tech Combine In An Artistic Masterpiece

Interesting article about a new glass art commission in a courthouse in Austin, Texas - though it is a bit of a stretch to say that the stained glass technology they are using here is "old".
The appropriate quote -

Of course, in addition to the new technology of 3D imaging, Ross also relied heavily on an older one – stained glass. Although it was conceived on a computer screen, Ross and his studio worked in conjunction with Franz Mayer of Munich Co. to hand make each piece of stained glass used in the work. The glass was composed in two layers – the front layer was engraved, hand painted and fired. The back layer was digitally printed, fired, hand painted, then fired again. The two layers of glass were then laminated together.

This kind of laminated artwork has only been around for a few decades, so 'older technology' doesn't seem quite right. Still, the article and gallery are lengthy and worth a look/read.

Mormon TIME Magazine Cover Revisited

With a new Ai WeiWei designed cover for TIME magazine gaining some attention as the "Most Beautiful Cover We've Ever Done", it's time to revisit my post on the least beautiful TIME cover of all time, from just 8 months ago -

You Decide  - Ugliest to "Most Beautiful" in eight months?
A side by side comparison of Time magazine covers, October 2012 and June 2013

Full article below the fold